Collins is a small-town lawyer, eking out a living with the usual mundane cases typical of small-town legal practice: succession, land disputes, criminal defenses and drafting routine agreements. When Evelyn Kingori walks into his office though, Collins knows something is going to shift. Evelyn is the wife of a wealthy businessman, Thomas King’ori; she and her husband have a battery of top law firms in Nairobi at their beck and call.
But Evelyn wants a divorce, and she wants nothing to do with her husband’s lawyers. She has heard about Collin’s reputation as a bright and diligent young lawyer, and she turns to him for help.
But things take an interesting, if dangerous, turn when Collins and Evelyn fall in love in the course of the proceedings, and Thomas decides to destroy them, starting with Collins.